Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
Fiorenzo Omenetto, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, demonstrates new high-technology applications of silk.
Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound
Honor Harger is interested in the use of radiotechnology in transforming noises from the space into audible sounds.
Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse
A theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses some fundamental questions concerning the nature of our universe
and speculates on plausible scenario of its future.
David Christian: Big history
Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe
Kelvin Kelly tells technology's epic story
Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
Murray Gell-Mann on beauty and truth in physics
Aaron O'Connel: Making sense of a visible quantum object
Brian Cox on CERN's supercollider
Brian Green on string theory
Patricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter
Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole
Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries
Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution
Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons
Ed Boydon, the leader of the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at the MIT Meedia Lab, talks about
the technology of implanting brains with optical fibers that can enable repair of various disorders.
James Watson on how he discovered DNA
Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future
Steven Cowley, the director of the UK's leading fusion research center, sees nuclear fusion as
a main source of cheap and nearly limitless carbon-free energy.
Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb
Harald Haas demonstrates a new type of light bulb that can transmit data in a very efficient way.
Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
Fiorenzo Omenetto, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, demonstrates new high-technology applications of silk.Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound
Honor Harger is interested in the use of radiotechnology in transforming noises from the space into audible sounds.Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse
A theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses some fundamental questions concerning the nature of our universeand speculates on plausible scenario of its future.
David Christian: Big history
Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe
Kelvin Kelly tells technology's epic story
Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
Murray Gell-Mann on beauty and truth in physics
Aaron O'Connel: Making sense of a visible quantum object
Brian Cox on CERN's supercollider
Brian Green on string theory
Patricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter
Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole
Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries
Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution
Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons
Ed Boydon, the leader of the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at the MIT Meedia Lab, talks aboutthe technology of implanting brains with optical fibers that can enable repair of various disorders.
James Watson on how he discovered DNA
Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future
Steven Cowley, the director of the UK's leading fusion research center, sees nuclear fusion asa main source of cheap and nearly limitless carbon-free energy.
Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb
Harald Haas demonstrates a new type of light bulb that can transmit data in a very efficient way.